#4 Here's a thought or two for the US Congress and our genius Colombia University scholar:
1. Provide US industry with a one month TAX Holiday between now and Christmas. If the stock market goes up, extend it for another month, then another, and another.
2. Give sales tax free status to any product still made in the United States (if there are any remaining) for the upcoming Christmas holiday season. If holiday season picks up, extend it to Easter, then Labor Day.
3. Make federal gasoline taxes deductable from Federal and State Income tax for folks driving US made automobiles.
4. Recruit a bunch of steel workers, pipefitters, and welder contractors. Pick a spot out somewhere's (preferably near of a major oil and gas trunk line) and build a new oil refinery. Oklahoma and Texas quickly come to mind. When it's done, sell it to an oil company at a discount, and with tax exempt status if they hire American help.
5. Let it be known the South Korean Army now has a robust nuclear capability and bring our US Army 2nd Infantry Division home.
6. Limit unemployment insurance to 179 days within a 5 year period, no exceptions.
7. Remove the ceiling on money earned by age 62-66 Social Security applicants. Let them work full-time and pay taxes until they're 105 if the wish.
8. Invoice the Mooslim rebels for every dime spent helping them overthrow the Kadaffi regime. Put everyone else on notice that we are a pay-as-you go peace provider. No exceptions.
9. End Federal tax-payer funded college tuition loans. Working your way through college is an education also.
10. Sub-contract the US Federal Prison system to Mexico.
11. Limit the USPS to letters only. Everything else goes Brown or FEDEX. Charge $2.50 per letter. The USPS fiscal problem with fix itself.
12. Replace the Food Stamp program with free MRE's. Two per day per family member. Sign for them at the firehouse or police station. (See item #6 for program duration and limits)
13. Lower the Capital Gains tax to 5% for 2012.
14. Terminate the so-called "Earned Income Tax Credit." (see item #12).
15. Permit hospitals to require an up-front $250,000. charge for anchor baby birthing. (hospitals keep $10,000, US Penal System get's the remainder).
16. Invoice the Germans and NATO for US soldiers and airmen stationed in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. No ticki-no ride.
17. Give the so-called "mission" of the BATF to the FBI. Integrate former ATF agents into local law enforcement.
18. Raise the rent of the UN building in NYC to a non-negociable $ 125B per year with a 5 year security deposit. Gold Bullion only, in advance.
19. Make Sarah Palin the energy Czar. Let her work from home and approve/and monitor drilling in Alaska and off the US coast. Pay her $10m per year, but hold it in escrow unitl she's got us self sufficient with crude oil.
20. Make "Farmer's Markets" tax free zones.
21. End property taxes. Charge a fee, a head tax, for policing, the firehouse, water, sewer, school kids, etc.
22. Set aside public land for private veggie and flower gardens as is done in Europe and elsewhere.
23. Appoint Bill Gates to fix Amtrak and passenger service. Give him a deadline. Start with a new name, like the B&O and Union Pacific.
24. Get rid of FEMA and FEMA regions. Tell the governors of the states that they now have the mission. Pre-position MRE's, cots, porta-potties and tentage where it can be flown in to disaster areas. Put the Air National Guard in charge of transportation, set-up, and policing.
25. Disband the so-called "Federal Reserve" and give fair warning to it's former members that they are being monitored closely!
That's just a start. I have several more. |
[Iran Press TV] US president Barack